by admin | Jun 25, 2021 | Appalachia, Featured, News
Our longtime partner in Beattyville, Kentucky, Cumberland Mountain Outreach, is a small grassroots non-profit organization focused on helping those most in need in the hard-pressed, rural Appalachian community – especially children and senior citizens. In the past...
by admin | May 28, 2021 | Basic Needs, Helper of the Month, News
Americans Helping Americans® is honored to award Marjy Stagmeier and her team at Star-C programs our Helper of the Month Award for May. Congratulations, Marjy! Marjy Stagmeier is a landlord with a good heart who started the charity Star-C Programs to help pay for the...
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Basic Needs, Featured, Lunch box, News
On Tuesday, June 1 the wheels of the Lunch Box Bus, operated by our partner, Of One Accord, will be rolling again on the winding rural roads of Hancock and Hawkins counties in East Tennessee delivering meals to hungry children living in isolated pockets of poverty....
by admin | May 20, 2021 | Basic Needs, Featured, News
More than two months ago, Beattyville, Kentucky, and surrounding Lee County where our partner Cumberland Mountain Outreach operates, suffered an historic, 100-year flood. Dozens of businesses in the small town’s downtown area were forced to close, and hundreds of...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Basic Needs, COVID-19, News
At Americans Helping Americans®, we encourage all Americans to get vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus, as do our grassroots partners in Georgia, Tennessee, and West Virginia, as a way to protect ourselves and others from the deadly coronavirus on the way to a return to...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Basic Needs, Featured, News, summer
Last year at this time, our partners that operate summer day camps in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia were unsure how, or even if, they were going to be able hold their programs for low-income children in distressed, rural Appalachia. And although they were not...
